Legal Opinion
Grissom v. the Mills Corp.
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Decided December 3, 2008No. 07-1777PublishedCited by 317 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Vacated and remanded by published opinion. Senior Judge HAMILTON wrote the opinion, in which Judge TRAXLER and Judge DEVER joined.
OPINION
HAMILTON, Senior Circuit Judge:
In this appeal, the Mills Corporation (Defendant or Mills) challenges, on several grounds, the district court’s entry of a judgment awarding its former employee Kenneth Grissom (Plaintiff) $325,484.08 in attorneys’ fees and costs (the Fee Award). The Fee Award followed Plaintiffs acceptance of Defendant’s $130,000.00 offer of judgment made pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 68 (Rule 68). For reasons that follow, we…
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